I looked at two things in System Preferences -> Growl: #1, General -> Default Style: Smoke; #2, Applications -> Firefox -> Applications; Default Style: Default.
I assume from that I'll get Smoke since the Application itself made no overriding choice, since it was set to Default. As for user actions (like clicking a button) which create a notification, and it not ever sticking unless the Application says Always... now that I'm beginning to understand what constitutes activity, and WHEN measurement begins, the picture is becoming clearer. The General setting of "Leave ... <n> seconds of inactivity" was what isn't clear. I was assuming the <n> seconds was when the inactivity measurement was taken. Any notification on the screen at time (2 seconds after the event) would become sticky. I see that's not true. What is "true" for one person may not be "true" for another, given the undisclosed conditions defining that truth. It is this non-disclosure that leads to different interpretations of the truth. Dickster On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. <[email protected]>wrote: > Idle time is checked when the notification first appears. You will never be > able to make a notification sticky via idleness by performing an action > using your mouse or keyboard. > > If you want all of a certain notification to be sticky, change it to be > set to that via Growl's prefereneces. > > If you want all notifications to always be sticky no matter what, you > can't, and I don't believe you really want that anyways. > > Also, what nofication style are you using? > > -Evan > > > On Sep 1, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Dick Guertin <[email protected]> wrote: > > The threshhold is 2-seconds. I can't change the threshold in 2-seconds, so > my answer is: The everything-sticky applies to ALL notifications that occur > since the threshold was set. I click "Clear Cache Button" in Firefox, a > notifications occurs (and I sit idle), and 5-seconds later it disappears. > So if Grolw is checking 2-seconds after the event, and there is no activity > at that time, the note should go sticky. But it doesn't. I can't get ANY > note to stay sticky unless I change the Applications -> Notifications "Stay > on Screen" setting to Always. > > Dickster > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Ian Roberts < <[email protected]> > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Dick Guertin wrote: >> > I have "Leave ..." checked, with a 2-second >> > time. So basically, after 2 seconds of doing nothing, the notifications >> > should STICK. But they don't. I modified Gee to say Stay on screen: >> > Always, and then they would stick. But "Leave..." is being ignored if >> > the Application Decides. I have Firefox that way (default >> > as-installed), and when I "Clear Cache", the notification appears, and 5 >> > seconds later goes away. Meanwhile, I'm not doing anything... just >> > sitting waiting to see what happens. >> >> Does the everything-sticky setting apply to notifications that were >> already on screen when the threshold was passed, or only to ones that >> start to appear after that time? >> >> Ian >> >> -- >> Ian Roberts | Department of Computer Science >> <[email protected]>[email protected] | University of >> Sheffield, UK >> >> >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
